Poppies x Kamikaze

Question 1

Who is

Poppies

written by?

Answer 1

Jane Weir

Question 2

What is the

form of Poppies?

(2)

Answer 2

Dramatic Monologue
Free Verse

Question 3

What would you compare

Poppies with?

and what are your three points?

Answer 3

Kamikaze

1. Inescapability of conflict, soldier’s lack of choice.
2. Nostalgia of past memories when navigating through situations of conflict.
3. Silence and isolation that conflict can cause in households.

Question 4

Who is

Kamikaze

written by?

Answer 4

Beatrice Garland

Question 5

What is the

form of Kamikaze?

Answer 5

Blank Verse

Question 6

What is your

first point for Poppies x Kamikaze?

and what quotations are you using for this?

Answer 6

Inescapability of conflict, lack of soldier’s choice.

Poppies -> “A split second and you were away, intoxicated.”
Kamikaze -> “as though he no longer existed”, “he must have wondered which had been the better way to die”

Question 7

What is your

second point for Poppies x Kamikaze?

and what quotations are you using for this?

Answer 7

Nostalgia of past memories when navigating through situations of conflict.

Poppies -> “hoping to hear your playground voice catching on the wind”
Kamikaze -> “he and his brothers waiting on the shore […] see whose withstood longest the turbulent inrush”

Question 8

What is your

third point for Poppies x Kamikaze?

and what quotations are you using for this?

Answer 8

Silence and isolation that conflict can cause in households.

Poppies -> “All my words flattened, rolled, turned to felt”
Kamikaze -> “learned to be silent, to live as though he had never returned”